Cars is a media franchise including the 2006 film Cars, the 2011 film Cars 2, the 2017 film Cars 3, the 2022 series Cars on the Road, the 2013 film Planes and the 2014 film Planes: Fire & Rescue. This page is a list of characters that have appeared in the franchise. Piston Cup teams Rust-eze team Montgomery "Lightning" McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson in the films and the first two games, Ben Rausch in Cars 3: Driven to Win, Keith Ferguson in all other media) is not modeled directly after a specific make and model, although his design contains some elements inspired by the Chevrolet Corvette C6, Dodge Viper (ZB I), and Gen 4 NASCAR stock cars. He owns a racing academy team with Doc Hudson called the "Doc Hudson Racing Academy" (later known as the "Lightning McQueen Racing Academy" after Hudson's passing), where he trains rookie racers in the act of speed and good sportsmanship. Together with his friends, Cruz Ramirez and Mater, McQueen's academy is a popular racing school in the world of Cars. Throughout his career, he has recorded seven Piston Cup championships and hasn't recorded a DNF, until the third film, when he crashed out in the form of a rollover in an effort to close the gap to Jackson Storm, his high-tech next generation rival. His regular catchphrases are "Ka-chow!", "Speed. I am speed." and "You gotta be kidding me!" In the television series Mater's Tall Tales, his catchphrase is "I'm sorry, Mater. That didn't happen!" Mack (voiced by John Ratzenberger) is a 1985 Mack Super-Liner. Has the role of McQueen's transport, Mack pulls Lightning McQueen's trailer to his races. McQueen exhorts Mack to drive through the night to his tiebreaker race with Chick Hicks and The King in Los Angeles, despite federal DOT regulations which legally grant Mack ten hours daily of much-needed off-duty rest alongside "all those sleeping trucks" at the last truck stop on I-40. As a result, Mack falls asleep and, distracted by the Delinquent Road Hazards who attempt to push him off the road to the shoulder, loses Lightning. Mack arrives in Radiator Springs after Hudson reveals Lightning's location. Sterling (voiced by Nathan Fillion) is a billionaire and one of the main antagonists in Cars 3. He assigns Cruz Ramirez to train McQueen and prepare him for the Florida 500. After watching McQueen's poor performance on the simulator, Sterling